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Revel to Provide New Shared Electric Mopeds To Fill Transportation Gaps

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Revel to Provide New Shared Electric Mopeds To Fill Transportation Gaps By Bradley Dunn Expanding shared mobility services is an important part of the SFMTA’s goal to provide sustainable mobility options. These programs support our climate change and equity goals by reducing our city’s reliance on single-occupancy vehicles. On August 31, Revel is expected to launch approximately 430 e-mopeds in San Francisco helping fill gaps in our transportation network while transit service is reduced and beyond. Shared electric mopeds offer a zero-emission choice for getting around San Francisco. Shared e-mopeds help make better use of travel lanes and scarce curb, using little scraps too small to park even the tiniest car. During  COVID-19, shared e-mopeds provide a mobility alternative that doesn’t contribute to traffic congestion and doesn’t burden transit, helping make more room on Muni for essential workers and transit-dependent San Franciscans. The SFMTA has approved Revel Transit, ...
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Expanding the Bicycle Network and Making New Connections

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Expanding the Bicycle Network and Making New Connections By Benjamin Barnett With the challenges we all have faced over the past six months, we wanted to take a minute to shine some light on the accomplishments we made this summer in improving our ever-expanding bicycle network. Our crews worked all over the city making improvements, adding infrastructure and creating a more robust network. Biking is more important than ever, both as a means of transportation with Muni service limited and as a way to get some exercise while sheltering-in-place. Where people feel safe and comfortable bicycling, more people ride bicycles. When these bike rides replace car trips, it creates more room on our crowded roadways, reducing traffic congestion. As such, expanding the bicycle network where people can travel comfortably has been a key priority of the SFMTA’s Transportation Recovery Plan . Fell Street The new parking-protected bikeway on Fell Street between Baker and Shrader streets provides r...
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Reimagine Potrero Yard with Us – Summer Milestones

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Reimagine Potrero Yard with Us – Summer Milestones By Adrienne Heim A potential rendering of the future modernized Potrero Yard The Potrero Yard Modernization Project will rebuild the existing Potrero bus yard to ensure we maintain our bus fleet as efficiently as possible and enhance the facility’s resilience to climate change and other natural disasters. The Project will also ensure our staff is able to perform their work in a safe and efficient way and address the City’s broader goals for new housing and affordable housing.  The Project has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), an important step for modernizing the yard. The Project Concept The modern yard will be able to store 213 buses, increasing capacity by approximately 50%. In addition, the facility will include the following features: LEED Gold Certification An elevated structural and seismic building standard Infrastructure for battery-electric buses Centralized location for Street Operations - Muni’s “...
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